Engage Decision Frameworks to support in-house teams of decision analysis practitioners, to develop and reinforce decision quality or to dedicate Decision Quality consultants to key projects and initiatives. Use Decision Frameworks to jump start a project or refocus the direction of an asset by building a clear project strategy:

Decision Frameworks provides one of the most comprehensive catalog of courses, practicums and presentations in the decision analysis, energy and pharmaceutical industries. The catalog is supported with Decision Frameworks' proprietary suite of Decision Quality Software to guide participants through the decision analysis workflow, to review similar cases and to facilitate Decision Quality with a next-generation decision tree solution.

What is decision quality? How do you ensure decision quality in your organization? Decision quality begins with clarity of action. This clarity is achieved when there is a clear understanding of the decision problem, the possible solutions, and the impact of those solutions including the tradeoff of different decision criteria.

From 1993 to 1999, Ellen Coopersmith led one of the oil industry's most successful implementations of Decision Analysis (DA) for Conoco.

Supported by an exceptional executive championship, she established an internal force of over one hundred well-versed part and fulltime decision consultants. In the course of the venture, she trained over 2000 professionals and guided innumerable corporate decisions.

Based on this experience, Ellen envisioned a broader application-the ingraining of (DA) into any organization, to be practiced by professionals from a wide variety of backgrounds.

Kent Burkholder, Vice President

Kent Burkholder is a Vice President of Decision Frameworks and has been
with the company since 2003. He is an advisor and consultant with broad
experience in petroleum economics, decision and risk analysis framing,
and economic modeling and implementation. He is highly skilled in
decision facilitation and has developed and conducted many decision
analysis, economic modeling, and value-of-information courses.

Kent's decision analysis application experience covers a wide range of
topics including exploration, appraisal, development, business strategy,
refining and new technology research. His extensive industry experience
in the oil and gas sector allows him to provide high level support to
executives and business decision-makers.

Mr. Burkholder holds a B.A.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
Kent joined Decision Frameworks after six years with Petro-Canada, ten
years with Merak Projects, and two years with Schlumberger. Kent's last position with Schlumberger was as Manager of Schlumberger's
Oil & Gas Business Consulting group in the Middle East and Asia.